Mexique (Deluxe Edition).
Paris: Renou & Colle, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Deluxe version (No. 3 of 20 copies). Catalogue published for the exhibition of Mexican art curated by André Breton at Renou & Colle (Mar. 10 - 25, 1939), following his pivotal 1938 voyage through the country. To supplement a group of eighteen paintings from Frida Kahlo (one of which—The Frame—would sell to the Louvre), Breton assembled a range of Mexican paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, examples of Pre-Columbian art, and a series of photographs from Manuel Alvarez Bravo, whose work he celebrates here as one of the purest examples of Mexican soul. The twenty deluxe copies printed on Vergé de Montval paper; tan wrappers differing from the regular purple covers. Contents: [2], 16, [2] pages, illustrated with five tipped black-and-white plates, including two after photographs by Ubac and the affixed cover image after Alvarez Bravo; gatherings loose in unbound wrappers. Minor scuffing to rear panel of wrappers, else fine.
Item #32098
Price: $3,500.00